The Educated Investor

Cole Shephard is the founding partner of Legacy Group and the Green Coffee company. Cole started his journey working with Price WaterHouse Cooper coordinating large capital transactions of everything from purchasing Gold Mines, and skyscrapers to international Banks. After feeling constrained in his position, he chose to start his own investment firm, and in 5 years went from flipping houses in Colombia to founding and expanding his company the Green Coffee Company into the largest Coffee producer in Colombia. Listen as we take on the journey of how he did it.

Website - https://legacy-group.co/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-shephard-67b1a51a/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/legacygroupinvestments/

This episode we interview Eric Chebil the founder and CEO of CHER whose goal is to make first-time homeownership simplified through co-ownership. By providing access to loans, homes, realtors, legal documents, and acting as a digital co-buying concierge, Cher enables low to middle income (LMI) renters an opportunity to transition into co-ownership and build equity. Eric takes us on the journey of what it takes to start a company from an idea to Reality

Matt Faircloth is the author of "Raising Private Capital, how to build your real estate empire using other people's money". As the founder of the De Rosa Group he has built a real estate portfolio worth over $250 million in Assets under management. In this episode we talk about the ups and downs of being an apartment syndicator, and what it takes to be successful in multifamily investing.

https://lnk.bio/mattfaircloth

Mary Ta has long held an unflinching belief in the power of the spaces we live in to elevate our lives. In 2004 she founded the Los Angeles flagship of legendary luxury Italian furniture brand Minotti. Although Mary travels the world to discover new brands, products, and designers, she is a passionate connector in Los Angeles, the city she has called home for three decades where she has designed for everyone from Commercial developers to Elon Musk.

Brooke Burgstahler has created docuseries for Snoop Dogg, and been a leading journalist in the budding cannabis media scene since its early days of legalization. (pun intended). She shares her journey of creating her own media brand, being her own boss in an industry with no blueprint for success, and managing the stereotypes of what it is do be a consumer of Cannabis while building her business.

Chris Barker and Nida Rinthapol are the definition of "educated investors" Chris was a practicing attorney, and Nida a Phd data scientist before they owned their first rental. By happenstance Nida's first purchase was from an investor that later became their mentor on working with clients that needed subsidized housing. With their mentor's help they went on the journey of navigating the world of subsidized housing, and found a business model that allowed them to do well by doing good. Their tenants have been from some of the most vulnerable and underserved populations in the city, while Chris and Nida prided themselves on providing their tenants with clean, safe, respectable homes to live in.

Hoan Thai has been in the real estate space for over 10 years. He does everything from flips, to BRRRS, rentals, multifamily, seller finance, creative finance, and more. Hoan's key to success can be summarized in his book measure once, cut twice! The key to learning and growing as an entrepreneur for Hoan has been a story about running the numbers and then taking action. Since buying his first 6 unit property in 2012, he has scaled his personal portfolio, and helped new real estate entrepreneurs achieve financial freedom through real estate investing with his mentorship program.

Hoan's offerings can be found at

https://www.hoanzone.com/

https://www.instagram.com/hoanzone/

Dan is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, CO. In his 18 years of teaching high school, he has taught a variety of business subjects including personal finance, entrepreneurship, and marketing.

Dan launched SheeksFreaks in late 2019, which is an online community dedicated to helping young people learn money management skills, start investing in real estate, and pursue early financial independence. The SheeksFreaks community aims to help teens use specific methods of saving, earning extra income, and investing to set them on a track to purchase real estate investment properties in their early 20s and achieve financial independence at a young age.

Dan and his wife have a variety of real estate investments including multifamily, single family, Airbnb, and out-of-state BRRRRs. They currently have 15 units in Colorado and Michigan.

Websites & Social Media

SheeksFreaks website

SheeksFreaks Instagram @sheeksfreaks

SheeksFreak Youtube

Dan's LinkedIn

Dan's Instagram @dsheeks

Laura Blosser graduated from College with an architectural degree and $180,000 in student debt. They were overwhelmed y the prospect of paying such a burden at the start of their career, until they found a program that would forgive all of their student debt, and later found another program that provided them with a $30,000 grant towards purchasing their first duplex. Come on the journey as Laura shares the lessons learned and overcoming the scarcity mindset that nearly stopped them from even getting started.

Laura can be reached at

[email protected]

Herve Francois enjoyed a career in the high stakes world of wall street investing for two decades. When he finally decided to start a new path in Real Estate investing, his first venture lost him nearly $30,000. Through strategic partnerships, education and consistent action he took this loss as a lesson, and developed the skills to become a top syndicator, and with the Derosa Group has been a part of raising more than 10 Million in capital for profitable, apartment syndications that serve both tenants and investors with integrity. Listen to his journey here.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hervedfrancois/

https://derosagroup.com/